UID:
almafu_9959228155802883
Format:
1 online resource (380 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-46687-1
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9786610466870
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1-4175-0717-9
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90-474-0162-X
Series Statement:
African dynamics, v. 2
Content:
Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Maps, figures, tables and photographs; Preface; 1 Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES; PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE; PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY; List of authors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-12624-4
Language:
English
